New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-17
SCIENTISTS LABORS OVER.
WORK OF THE LAST DAY OF THE SESSION.

PAPERS BEFORE THE VARIOUS sEcrIoNs-soaE OF
TUE DELEGATES WILL LINGER DAY OR Iwo'
TIE Association foe the Advancement of Science
ersb.a i,s labors at Columbia COLLEGE yesterday and
adioutned TO meet again in Cleveland on the fourth
"wednesday of August 1883. Tso OF the seotions'
those on Mathematics and Astronomy ana on Ohen-
istry got through with their discussions Oh MONDAY
In the other six yesterday was taken iora general
clearing I'D of bu sincss All the papers that were 20
get in print this year had to be in by 8 p No., and
there was good deal of bustling on the part OF the
moro tardy scientists AS 1t was, dozen or more
treatises will have TO go gathering the dus' u"'i
che Cleveland Convection next August.
The formal adjournment In Library HAN iaS' ne
will not take all of the scientists out OF the city n
diately Several excursions have been pianheo ioi W
DAY for the members OF the vari"ns seo''onS 49,
invitation OF Bishop Henry c. Potter nunoer y, '.0
economists, anthropoogists ana otnerS ii'' -. al,
prisons and prison discipline will 60 over 10 oi"oA
uslrs Island this morning for tour OF the peniteh
tiary buildings The Rev. William IT, frehcn' one -
the Black wells Island chaplans VIII guiue 'ho p"'V
around The hospital and amshouses VIII "iso oo
visited The scientists will take the steamer oil inc
trart;.s and Correction Department at 10 a. M from
Est Twentvsixth-st The boat Will return 10 'ne
CITY every nOur or two OF the day.
Ahont thirty of the biologists VIII take run across
the Hudson to Bergen County, under the urecuou VI
Professor George +. K1nz. They will inspect the
trap and sandstone exposures OF the Palisades ana
Bergen Ridge. The party will not get back until
syenlng Some OF the physicists and mechanical ehg
Deers will 90 down to Fort Lafayette in the afternoon
10 witness the firing of Lieutenant +. L. Aahnskls
new pneumatic dynamite gun. Erastus Wiman mas
invited the scientists in body to see the Fall of
babylon tonight. Some 200 members OF the asso-
citation will go to Staten Island
The New. York, Central Railroad has offered the
scentists low excarsn rates TO Saratoga ana return
Tickets will be good from this morning till Saturday
evening So it will probably be near the END OF tne
week before the ! 900 odd philosophers now IN the
city finally disperse.
The first business of the closing day was the general
session in the Hall of tho Library to elect new officers
and receive the annual reports The list OF the Nolnl-
mating Committee published In yesterdays TRIBUNE
went through unanimously. By 1t Major j. W.
Powell of Washington is made president tor the year.
and j. C. Arthur. of Lafayette, Ind, general secre-
tary General William Lilly, OF Mauch Chunk, REM,
continues treasurer, and +. W. Putnam, OF Cam
bridge. permanent secretary. The reports were re-
terred to an auditing committee. On motion Presi-
don't Langley appointed Professors E ID. Cope, j. r.
Eastman and G.. X Gilbert committee to devise
methods of obtaining from Congress reduction OF tho
tariff on scientific books. MISS Alice c. Fletcher and
Mrs T. Stephenson ware appointed committee TO
petition Congress take the 10 preserve
the archaeological monuments on the public lands OF
the United States.
resolution was passed recommending the pubhca-
ton by the Government of an index to the literature
of meteorology, now being prepared by the chloi
SigLal Service officer Ceveapd Able. Another reso-
linton urged President Cleveland to appoint at once
permanent Superintendent of the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey. third pettioned Congress to
provide q Bureau vt Standards. by ~hich accurate
standards of measure should be established tor cleo
tricty heat and light aud arrangements made tor the
issue OF authenticated copies OF the same
MANUAL TRAINING DISCUSSED AND INDoRsED
The sections met immediately after the adjournment
of the general session. The economists aud statlsti
cans drew the largest audience, usual Professor
l.. j. James Of Philadelphia, the youthful scientist
who ran an interesting tilt with Edward Atkinson the
other day, and yam Pbon Lee, the young Chnaman
who was graduated with hcnOrs from Yale last June,
and who further distinguished hms elt by marrying
rich New-Hayen girl, down on the bill TO speak
And proved genuine attractions. The chief topic OF
the morning was Manual Training in the Public
Schools"
President C. VI. Woodward, of Washington College,
st. Louis gave the first talk. He bad notes and
ran along breezly with bis experiences es cher Of
the new education. His college, be said, had taken up
the industrial method some time ago aud had thrived
IN it, The number of students had increased and the
boys stayed longer, on the average. After three
years of manual training, there not OF them
that could 90 out and make success OF any trade
or occupation he went into.
OF course you must presuppOse little brains to
start WITH he added.
One OF his boys went into farming and was the
best in the county and was IN demand 10 arrange
ali his nelghbors' machinery Another went into 4
Lathe shop and was made foreman in no time 4
practical machnist had admitted TO him that boy
with course in the manual training school, after SIX
months in the shop worth any other boy who had
been there three years and halt. President Wood
ward compared the American manual schools with the
French and German, and thought the American
superior. The foreign school was only training
school tor one trade. The American gave course
that fitted a boy for any trade. The speaker GER
tain the new method would succeed. Its results lar
had been WONDERFUL.
Professor James followed Mr.. Woodward with
an able and unqualified Endorsement of the manual
training system he title OF his paper Manual
Training in the Public Schools from Economical
Point of View" The Philadelphia economist was
and forcible, and his points were vigorously ap
plauded. Here is what he said
The general introduction public schools Of system
aS training in the InSsryns psnSpss 81 the
s & sSo stp S hi, mo o our
,c ass in The Of sound
The furnishing Of facilities in connection with our public
sisSe it wi give symmetry system which
sssceis saunos dsisndsa from 0'ii me onarsS
that their effort chief, devoted TO train,
.siiv,ssao ne exclusion Of the oss saHS,e toe IuPl
n TO earn his living on the day after graduation What
p.ary all Of which Imply an e1i,tenes OF geniee poyery
He may enter store Ss eek or Sooks'ePs or an once as
Which ability write hand and ada 8.
Ie schools 10 :eo's professional schools Tor tor
sss csns. are a%sy me
%s%S ,nPousS fs Of he .ocsa Ss
educaton OF manual training the schools would
open up those who through them whole Of
handicrafts as well as oleTkshipa.
industrial features II ntroduced would result
attendance the public schools The OF
children enrolled with al expenditure OF
should and the attendance often eguaT.
There for this Take the Of the
Gborer. with 81 so S2s day, has a boy Of
The yOnngster has learned how TO read wrte
aud cipher in In his three years Of school.
ing. The question is now. shall he continue
his aSsr AMI boSRsr. ana
They must less. and enjsy less
Why should he school all IL be shop
he will begin ire and TO learn trade In three
four he Will be self supporting In school he learn
atue more reading, writing and cpheng and some geog
raphy, but ho wall making his lSinE
lust where he started But
that such general manual training be in
connection a school from
70 fourteen viii put them forward a far they
could proceeded they mad directly the
The parent this and there little doubt that there
would lenghening school life OF the
children consderabywth great benefit TO them and TO the
community